Penshoppe Pop Beauty lipstick in Spanish Red + Another Award!

School just started, and I'm already buried in work! X_X Anyway, today we have one of my school lipsticks. If I'm not using Tender Lips, I usually use this together with Mauvey.


This sheer red from Penshoppe is no Wild Cherry, but I still like it all the same.


Even if it's sheer, it still manages to deliver a big pop of color:

Here it is worn alone, under different types of lighting (I decided to play around with shot angles today too XD):

And here it is worn with Mauvey:

There's not much difference, really, but I like to think it makes the color look "nuder". XD

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Also, the amazing ~tHiAmErE~ gave me an award! Thank you so much!

I'd like to pass this on to:

makeupjunkie of confessions of an unapologetic makeup junkie
gracie of Gracified Shopaholix
*Nehs* of Nehsai loves N and CHIPIPAY'S (Cheap, good quality products? I am SO there! Looking forward to getting introduced to more cheap-but-good finds from this blog! :D)
and the Girl with Glasses!

Nichido lipstick in Tender Lips

Yet another GIRLTalk find. I swear, that forum increases my respect and support for local cosmetics each time I visit. <3

Does the sleek, anodized aluminum-like casing seem familiar? It should be.

Same height, same lipstick amount... are you wondering why?

That's because they're actually made by the same company! (Sorry if the font's still too small, the macro lens on my camera wouldn't go any closer.)

Both Penshoppe and Nichido lipsticks are manufactured by Jemica Cosmetics Corp., which is based in Quezon City. Nichido's lipsticks smell better, though. To me, they smell like Play Doh, which is actually a rather pleasing scent.

Anyway, Tender Lips is a sheer peachy orange perfect for everyday wear. It glides on smoothly and isn't drying. (The shea butter ingredient is working! Yay!)

Here's what it looks like in different lighting situations:

I'm definitely wearing this to school once it starts back up on Monday.

Penshoppe Pop Beauty lipstick in Russian Doll vs herbench/ paint box lipstick in Orchid Pop

I'm really fond of trying out make up from local companies that don't just sell make up. Take clothing brands bench/ and Penshoppe, for example. The products I've tried from them so far are actually of decent quality, sometimes even better than Pinoy brands that focus only on make up.

Russian Doll is a slightly purple-ey red, and is one of four lipstick colors that Penshoppe offers. (I've only ever seen 4 at the branches I go to; do let me know if they have more~) Their lipstick's packaging is fun to hold because it's so smooth and metallic. Kinda reminds me of the anodized aluminum Apple uses to make iPod Nanos, really.

Russian Doll looked somewhat familiar when I swatched it, so I went digging into my lipstick drawer to verify this. True enough, its color was VERY near rival brand bench/'s paint box Orchid Pop lipstick! (Russian Doll to the left, Orchid Pop to the right.)

I wouldn't call them dupes, because Russian Doll is more sheer than Orchid Pop. The difference is barely noticeable on the lips, though. Here's how RD looks like:

And here's Orchid Pop:

Visually, all Orchid Pop has over Russian Doll is the "creamy" finish, and that's pretty much it. However, if smell were a factor, bench/ definitely trumps Penshoppe. The former's sugary dessert scent easily defeats the latter's icky waxy smell. It's super effective! (Props if you get the geek reference. 8B)

What of bench/'s packaging, you ask? Well, it's certainly very pretty to look at,

but I still think Penshoppe's is more fun to hold.

Penshoppe Pop Beauty 9 in 1 Lip Palettes in Toffee and Berry

I've wanted to check these out for myself ever since I heard of them on the TeenTalk forums. I mean, 9 lip glosses in 1 package for only P129.75 is a very good deal, right? And if you get both variants, you get 18 different glosses total, all for the cheap sum of P259.50.

Can you guess which palette is which? The colors pretty much tell you what they're named after. I like that they included a tiny mirror. Very convenient.

Now, I did a little bit of googling to see if anyone else had done reviews on these products, and someone had! The review was done last year, back when Penshoppe's makeup line was still called Face It.

It isn't 2008 anymore though, and I find that my opinion differs from hers.

Aside from the name change to Pop Beauty, Penshoppe seems to have reworked its gloss formula, as everything in my palettes did not feel sticky as the previous review reported.

The included lip brushes were of decent quality too. Not one brush hair fell out as I swatched and applied the glosses consecutively.

All the colors were sheer, but they're glosses anyway so they're supposed to be like that. Besides, what's nice about their sheerness is that you can layer different colors together.

The only thing I don't like about the palettes is their scent, which smells too waxy.